It should be examined occasionally, and if it is spoiling, should be reboiled with a few peppercorns.

Bone the leg of mutton, without spoiling the skin, and cut off a great deal of the fat.

Families who make black draught in quantity, and wish to preserve it for some time without spoiling, should add about 2 drachms of spirits of hartshorn to each pint of the strained mixture, the use of this drug being to prevent its becoming mouldy or decomposed.

" "Well," I rejoined, "you must forgive the bird, as we must excuse you for spoiling our breakfast.

"Eveena did not tell me why you sent for me, and" "And you were afraid to be scolded for spoiling the breakfast?

On the other hand, imprisonment at least seemed to have had a restful effect on him; he had emerged from his long confinement, calmer and keener-witted, with the intention of spoiling his life no longer.

" "Catch me spoiling a good joke.

You're spoiling the party for us, keeping all the girls over here.'

" LITTLE POLLY FLINDERS Little Polly Flinders Sat among the cinders Warming her pretty little toes; Her mother came and caught her, Whipped her little daughter For spoiling her nice new clothes.

It is also a pastime in which women can combine with and compete against men without in any way spoiling the game; and mixed doubles, to which I refer, are perhaps the most popular department with the average spectator.

To those who deny this, I would give as a problem for solution, a case by no means unfrequent, and which most of my readers will have witnessed,a family in which the motherby no means incurring the charge of spoiling the child, by sparing the rodis less heeded, less promptly obeyed in her commands, than a father who seldom or never makes use of any such means.

They did their best to give him his money's worth, by spoiling his splendid looks and turning him into something different from what nature had intended.

We should incline to think the slang verb to mosey a mere variety of form, and that its derivation from a certain absconding Mr. Moses (who broke the law of his great namesake through a blind admiration of his example in spoiling the Egyptians) was only a new instance of that tendency to mythologize which is as strong as ever among the uneducated.

They are a great nuisance in spoiling earths by this practice.

And truly I am awfully ashamed of smashing the car, and not telling you, as I ought to have this morning, and spoiling Tony's fun andand everything."

You are spoiling my sale.

They would hate her for hurting Larry and spoiling his life.

The by-lane was interrupted at one place by a deep pool of water, through which the detachment plunging, half-leg deep, some of the weak-legged stumbled and fell, getting their cartridge-boxes under, and spoiling their ammunition.

Spoil, spoiled or spoilt, spoiling, spoiled or spoilt.

'I'd throw such a rascal into the river,' i. 469; 'With a little more spoiling you will, I think, make me a complete rascal,' iii. 1; 'Don't be afraid, Sir, you will soon make a very pretty rascal,' iv.

Meantime the hay is spoiling in the fields.

And you're spoiling the idea.

Since the English arrivall comparison hath made them miserable, for seeing the kind usage of the English to their wives, they doe as much condemne their husbands for unkindnesse and commend the English for love, as their husbands, commending themselves for their wit in keeping their wives industrious, doe condemn the English for their folly in spoiling good working creatures.

And it is said that if a man during his lifetime has planted a peepul tree he gets abused for it in the next world and is told to go and pick the leaves out of the water which have fallen into it and are spoiling it and such a man is able to get water to drink while he is picking the leaves out of it; but whether this is all true I cannot say.

What you have to learn is to insinuate yourself into life, like ivy, but without spoiling other people's pleasure.